Greg Holland, PhD

Director

Greg has designed, developed, and administered many aspects of the ARC statewide longitudinal data system for data research since joining the organization in 2009. Greg became Director of ARC in July 2016. Prior to ARC, Greg spent over twelve years in data development, quality, analysis, and administration for corporations in Arkansas. Because of Greg’s background in the computer sciences and his experience with state agencies, he directs ARC from both the software and service sides.

Sarah Argue, MPS

Deputy Director

Sarah serves as ARC’s Early Childhood Education specialist, working closely with the Department of Human Services Division of Child Care and Early Childcare Education. As a classroom teacher, Sarah saw first-hand the importance of early learning and providing a solid academic foundation for students. She uses her teaching experience and use of data driven decision making to develop research questions that will provide useful information to early childhood teachers as they strengthen and expand their instruction.

Matt Jeffery

Lead Software Developer

As ARC’s lead software developer, Matt is responsible for application development of tools like KIM and TIM and web sites like arc.arkansas.gov and quicklooks.arkansas.gov. He is also responsible for network maintenance and security, database administration and server system administration, and security. Matt also contributes to database application design and performance tuning.

Jake Walker, PhD

Projects Director

Jake serves as the liaison between DWS and DWE and ARC. In addition to working with DWS and DWE, Jake works with other stakeholders in the SLDS that have programs funded or run through DWS or DWE. He is responsible for developing research methodologies as well as the statistical analyses to use in research studies that ARC conducts. Jake also provides onsite knowledge of many of the programs participating in the SLDS through his varied academic and work experiences.

Nathan Gray

Software Development Team Leader

Nathan works to create and maintain various web applications for collecting data, monitoring the status and activities, and reporting on outcomes of various programs. As a full stack developer and general technology enthusiast, he also assists with many other various, technical tasks at ARC.

Software Development Team

The newest members of the ARC team, individual profiles coming soon…

Greg Lindstrom

Matthew Martens

AJ Regester

Binqi Sun

The Software Development Team coordinates with state agencies for functional design to meet their needs. Greg brings several decades of software development expertise. Matthew provides the team with experience in application and web security. AJ has developed and maintained data processing applications and has completed coursework in the UCA Computer Science – Masters in Applied Computing program. Binqi is recent graduate of the same program and has experience in multiple programming languages and database platforms.